Henry David Thoreau Wilderness Quotations

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).